• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Wow I am so incredibly surprised.

    Anybody remember when Rockstar used to parody American capitalism, not embody it?

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    2 days ago

    Gamers don’t care. They’ll buy the thing even if it meant selling their grandmother.

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      22 hours ago

      I’m not so sure. When it comes to a conscious decision to either pirate or buy, crap like this often helps with the guilt.

      • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        19 hours ago

        You should feel absolutely zero guilt about pirating “triple-A” software. It’s a morally neutral act. The money they would’ve got from your purchase is so insignificant to them that it wouldn’t even show up on their annual returns. Assuming they file them.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      It speak more about this age of consumerism, regardless how evil one company are, people will still buy their stuff because they don’t care.

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        1 day ago

        Most gamers won’t even hear about it. Just seeing the article already puts you in the “highly informed” bucket

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          That’s unfortunately the reality of it. For a lot of topics where you think you’re only semi-well informed/confident, you’re still much better informed than 90% of people.

          Now that doesn’t mean you should not still take action when you can, but you have to come to terms with it that even if all of the currently informed people take action, it often won’t even be noticed by the company/government for years or decades (until enough awareness spread that it starts making a difference)